The Taiwanese currency’s recent stunning rally against the U.S. dollar has highlighted a big risk in an unlikely area: the ...

Taiwan’s biggest insurers posted a total loss of almost NT$19 billion ($620 million) in April due to currency volatility after US President Donald Trump warned of a wave of global trade tariffs.

Nan Shan Life Insurance and Taiwan Life Insurance on "Rating Watch Negative" due to the "substantial currency mismatch" produced by their "sizeable" U.S. dollar holdings, the ratings agency said ...

Fubon Life Insurance Co. has “enhanced” hedging as the biggest one-day surge in the currency since the 1980s threatened to erode the US dollar-denominated assets of Taiwanese companies.

Taipei: Taiwan’s biggest insurers posted a total loss of almost NT$19bil or about US$620mil in April due to currency volatility after US President Donald Trump warned of a wave of global trade ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Credit ratings agency Fitch on Thursday placed five Taiwanese life insurers under review for potential downgrades after a sharp surge in the Taiwanese dollar this month put stress on ...

Two Taiwanese life insurers are taking opposite approaches to foreign-exchange hedging after a surge in the island’s currency put hundreds of billions of dollars of their US bond holdings under ...

coinciding with a surge in the island's currency, has been coined the "Taiwan Effect" by Deutsche Bank's Global Head of Foreign Exchange Research, George Saravelos. The turmoil is just "a warning ...

Taiwan’s life insurers are of course a central part of this story. They didn’t cause the initial move in the Taiwan dollar. But they are enormously exposed to any large move in the Taiwan dollar.